National Republican., 1887-02-12
DEATH IN TIE WATER.
Is the Element We Drink Dsoim iting
the Poople?-How n Universal Men
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Is the Element wo Drink Dsoim lting
the Poople?-How n Universal Mem
ace to Health May BE Disarmed.
a few years ago the people in certain
section in one Of the leading cities Of the
state were prostrated with malignant dis
ease, and upon investigation It was found
that only those who used water from
famous old well were the victims.
Prof. s. A. baltimore, analyst of the New
York state board Of health, upon analyzing
water from this well, found II more deadly
than the city sewage.
The filling up Of the old we'll stopped the
rayages Of the disease.
Not long since the writer noticed while
some men were making an excavation for
large building, stratum Of dark colored
earth running from near the surface to hard
pan. There II took another course toward
a well near at hand. The water from this
well had for years been tainted with the
DRAWINGS from a receiving vault, the per-
colations Of which had discoored the earth
Terrible
A similar condition OF things exists in
every village and city where well water is
used, and though the filtering which the
fluids receive in passing through the earth
may give them q clear appearance, yet the
water may look never so clear.
1t is still worse with the farmer, for the
drainage from the barn yard and the slops
from the kitchen eventually find their way
into the family we'll
The same condition Of things exists in our
large cities, whose water supplies are rivers
fed by little streams that carry of the filth
and drainage from houses. This "waterni is
eventually drunk by rich and poor alike
with great evil.
Some cautious people resort to the filter
for purifying this water, but even the filter
does not remove this poison, for water OF
the most deadly character may pass through
this filter and become clear, yet the poison
disguised is there.
They who use filters know that they must
be renewed at regular periods, for even
though they do not take out all the impur-
ity, they soon become foul.
Now In like manner the human kidneys
act as a filter for the blood, and If they are
filed up with impurities and become foul,
like the filter, all the blood 10 the system
coursing through them becomes bad, for it
is now conceded fact that the kidneys are
the chief means whereby the blood is puri
fed. These organs are filled with thousands
OF hair like tubes which drain the impurities
from the blood, as the sewer pipes drain
impurities from our houses.
IL sewer pipe breaks under the house,
the sewage escapes into the earth and fills
the house with poisonous gas SO If any of
the thousand aud one little hair-like sewer
tubes of the kidneys break down, the entire
body is affected by this awful poison.
1t is a scientific fact tnat the kidneys
haze few nerves OF sensation; and, conse
quently, disease may exist in these organs
for long time and not be suspected by the
individual. II Is impossible to filter or
take the death out of the blood when the
least arrangement exists In these organs,
and If the blood is not filtered then the uric
acid, or kidney poison, removable only by
Warmers safe cure, accumulates in the
system and attacks any organ, producing
nine out Of ten ailments, Just as sewer gas
and bad drainage produce so many fatal
disorders.
Kidney disease may be known to G tlst II
there is any marked departure from ordi-
nary health without apparent known cause,
and 1t should be understood by all that the
greatest peril exists, and Is Intensified, II
there is the least neglect to treat 1t promptly
with that great specific, Warmers safe
cure, remedy that has received the high
est recognition by scientific men who have
thoroughly investigated the character of
kidney arrangements.
They may not tell us that the cause of so
many diseases In this organ is the impure
water or any other one thing, but this poison
Jus wafer, WlJn lle lmpuTlIleS COuTSluB
constantly through these delicate org ans,
undoubtedly does produce much of the de-
cay and disease which eventually terminate
in the fatal Bright's disease: for this disease,
alike among the drinking men, prohibition
lists, the tobacco slave, the laborer, the mer-
chant, and the tramp, works terrible devas-
tation every year.
1t is well known that the liver which Is
so easily thrown "out Of gear,' as they say,
very readily disturbs the action OF the kid
neys. That organ when deranged, in,nicdi-
dtciy announces the fact by sallow skin.
constipated bowels, coated tongue, and
headaches, but the kidney when diseased
struggles on for long time, and the fact
of its disease can only be discovered by the
aid Of the microscope or by the physician
who is skillful enough TO trace the most In.
direct effects in the system to the derangc-
ment of these organs, as the prime cause.
The public is learning much on this sub
lect, and when It comes to understand that
the kidneys are the real health regulators,
as they are the real blood purifiers Of the
system, they will escape an infinite amount
of unnecessary suffering, and add length Of
days and happiness to their lot.